Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thank Thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me there is no such thing as guilt, that sin is a myth, and that Thou, O Father, art only a projection of my father complex ... Oh, I thank Thee that I am not like the rest of men, those nasty people, such as the Christian there in the back of the temple, who thinks that he is a sinner, that his soul stands in need of grace ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have...
...major point at issue between Monsignor Sheen and much of modern psychiatry is the subject of guilt. The denial of personal sin, he holds, has done more to keep man from God, and to disintegrate society, than any other single factor. Psychiatrists are enemies of man, Sheen says, whenever they view the sense of guilt as an undesirable symptom and try to get rid of it by convincing the patient either 1) that he was not responsible for his sinful actions, or 2) that such actions are really healthy and normal...
...also supported by the HLU. "Should communists be allowed to teach?" was the basic problem, and when the policy was finally set it averred that teachers should be judged solely on academic ability, that they should be completely free in other connections, and that they should bear no guilt through their associations...
...pastors' lawyers also plugged their clients' cultural guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...
...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...